Carlos Sandoval

Carlos Sandoval (Caracas, 1964), literary critic, writer, editor. He is research fellow at the Institute of Literary Research of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and lecturer at the UCV and the Catholic University Andrés Bello. His latest publications include De qué va el cuento. Antología de relatos venezolanos 2000-2012 (2013); Servicio crítico. Despachos tentativos sobre literatura venezolana (2013); Propuesta para un canon del cuento venezolano del siglo XX (2014; as coordinator, together with Carlos Pacheco and Luis Barrera Linares); El rastro de Lovecraft. Cuentos misteriosos y fantásticos (2015). He has been recognised with the Municipal Prize for Literary Research (2001), the I Crónicas Competition by the magazine Clímax (2006) and the Short Novel Prize of the I Literary Biennial ‘Julián Padrón’ (2010).

‘Any Old S’ was first published as ‘S cualquiera’ by the Venezuelan portal Prodavinci.com.